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Soundroots at the Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2014

Soundroots at the Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2014

What if you could hear the secrets of plants… Soundlings found out how to do so! With our new project Soundroots, we’ve come up with methods to translate the sounds of plants into the audible range. During the Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2014 we will have two events, on 13 and 14 september. We will go from…

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Notes to Share – Think Tank Meetup #21

Notes to Share – Think Tank Meetup #21

Below notes from the event are provided  by a regular thin tank attendant, Martijn Zandvliet. — Happy Anniversary! — This  Think Tank was both a celebration of two years of think tanks, and a critical look at the way we drive them. What are the Think Tanks for? What has worked so far, and what…

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Think Tank MeetUp #20 – The Artist Entrepeneur

Think Tank MeetUp #20 – The Artist Entrepeneur

The Soundlings Collective organizes regular meetings to informally discuss current topics of interest for the broader field of music, art, sound, culture & technology. This session’s topic will be “The Artist Entrepreneur” This topic came to be as a reaction to our earlier topic ‘the part-time artist’. While the part-time artist conversation looked critically at all of…

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First Soundlings Workspace Opens in Utrecht!

First Soundlings Workspace Opens in Utrecht!

We are happy to announce and very excited to share this news! Soundlings’ very first (NL based) workspace is finally ready! As part of the De Etalage and supported by EilandAcht Projectburo, Soundlings workspace will be located in Utrecht/NL. It will be used to host workshops, events, gatherings that are open for public view &…

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Think Tank #19 – Am I A Useful Idiot?

Think Tank #19 – Am I A Useful Idiot?

The Soundlings Collective organizes regular meetings to informally discuss current topics of interest for the broader field of music, art, sound, culture & technology. This session’s topic will be introduced by Marcel Wierckx. “Am I A Useful Idiot, or, What Can Aristotle, Matthew Arnold, G.W.F. Hegel, John Rawls and Grayson Perry Tell Us About Art and Technology?…

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Coalescence

Coalescence

Coalescence a space and time where three generations of sound touch, pull and fuse Imagine a dark space with islands of light and sound. Small separate traces of sounds fly around hastily. At times they illuminate the darkness, leaving bursts and flares of near blinding light. Miscible as these elusive substances are, they sometimes touch…

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Think Tank MeetUp # 18 – The Part-Time Artist

Think Tank MeetUp # 18 – The Part-Time Artist

The Soundlings Collective organizes regular meetings to informally discuss current topics of interest for the broader field of music, art, sound, culture & technology. This session’s topic will be ‘The Part-Time Artist’. “Most of us would agree that it is extremely difficult to make ends meet in today’s culture climate, unless you are the artist-entrepreneur type and…

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Think Tank MeetUp #17

Think Tank MeetUp #17

Hope all of you have had a great summer! At Soundlings we’ve all been really busy with various projects. The Think Tank Meetups took a little time off but now its time for the 17th session! This time around we will focus our discussion on “Specialising yourself while also maintaining a broad view”. Many artists…

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Think Tank MeetUp #16 – “InYourEars”

Think Tank MeetUp #16 – “InYourEars”

The topic “Investigation into headphone based work and mobile listening” will be introduced by Duncan Speakman! Below you can read his thoughts on the subject: “I want to make this session an opportunity for debate and investigation into headphone based work and mobile listening. They’ve been around for over 100 years now but I think we…

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